Brief Manual

• If you have stand-alone documents you created with a previous version, you may upgrade them to version 3.80 documents just by opening them with DOCMaker v3.80 and re-saving them.  You may check which version of DOCMaker (or DOCter) created a document by selecting ‘About DOCMaker’ under the Apple menu when you run the stand-alone document.

            Creating Documents

• DOCMaker may be configured to open to an untitled window or to the Open dialog when launched.  This is accomplished by choosing Preferences under the Control menu and selecting the desired option.

• DOCMaker recognizes any TEXT file and any existing stand-alone document for opening. 

• You may append a TEXT file at the insertion point of the current window by choosing Import (⌘ - =) under the File Menu.     

• To create a new chapter, choose Insert Chapter under the Chapters menu.    New chapters are placed either before or after the currently viewed chapter depending on the setting in the dialog.  Similarly to delete a chapter, choose Delete Chapter from the Chapters menu.  This is not undo-able!  You may also move a chapter to a new location within the document by choosing Move Chapter under the Chapters menu.

• You will be prompted for a chapter name when you create a new one.  You may also change the current chapter name, at any time.  Do this by selecting Rename Chapter under the Chapters menu or by option-clicking the popup item in the lower left portion of the DOCMaker window.

• Use standard Macintosh™ editing techniques while creating a document.  The Format menu contains items for Font, Size and Style (including colors).  The size of selected text may be increased and decreased by 1 point at a time by using the “<” and “>” command keys.

Each color also has Shift-Command key equivalents:

     Black.....⌘ shift-P     Green.....⌘ shift-G
     Red.......⌘ shift-R     Magenta...⌘ shift-M
     Blue......⌘ shift-B     Cyan......⌘ shift-C
     White.....⌘ shift-W     Yellow....⌘ shift-Y

• Use Cut, Copy, and Paste for text and graphics.

• You may paste graphics into the document at the insertion point.  The graphic is displayed (and printed) in left, center or right justified format.  The default (left justified) may be re-set under preferences.  To manipulate graphics, you must first select the graphic you wish to copy, cut, delete or justify by choosing the menu item Select Next Picture (⌘ - N) under the Edit menu.

• Each graphic may be set for clipped or scaled viewing.  This is done by first selecting the picture (⌘ - N) and then choosing Display Picture Â Clipped or Display Picture Â Scaled under the Edit menu.

• No operation is global for all chapters.  You only work on one chapter at a time (the currently viewed chapter).

• The view and print margins for each chapter may be set using the Window item under the Chapters menu.  The chapter text justification may also be set.

             Saving Documents

• Choose Save or Save As under the File menu to save your document.  It will be saved in stand-alone document format.

• Selecting Export Â Save Text under the File menu will create a TEXT document you may run through your favorite spelling or grammar checker.

• Selecting Export Â Save Graphics under the File menu will create a Scrapbook File which will contain all of the graphics in a document.

• Do not load fonts into your stand-alone documents!  If you are able to distribute fonts with your documents, include a font suitcase file with the document.

                     Printing & Page Breaks

• You may print from the DOCMaker application, as well as, from the stand-alone documents.

• If there is more than one chapter in the document, then you are prompted to select which chapters you wish to print.   This makes it convenient, for instance, to print only part of a document like the order form in Chapter 3 of this document— hint, hint.

• A footer may be printed, automatically, at the bottom of every page.  Its contents may be customized in DOCMaker by selecting Footer from under the Document menu.

• Another menu item, called Show Page, is found under the Document Menu in DOCMaker.  When this item is selected the location of the page breaks will be displayed as horizontal lines in the text.  The window will display the text wrapping and page breaks just as they will be printed according to the current Chooser setting and page setup.  For convenience, you may change the page setup while Show Page is active to see what effect different settings have on the text wrapping and the page breaking.  To turn off Show Page just select it again from the File menu.

• Also under the File menu is the Insert Page Break item (⌘ - M).  To use this, you must already have chosen Show Pages.  By choosing Insert Page Break, DOCMaker will break the text where the user wants it.

This feature allows you to make sure that the page breaks occur in an appropriate place when printing.  You should use the Show Pages item to make certain that page breaks do not fall durring any graphics.  The page breaks, which you insert, will be shown as dashed lines, while the page breaks calculated by DOCMaker will appear as gray lines.

              Miscellaneous

• If you have an extended keyboard you may use the Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down buttons with DOCMaker and in its stand-alone documents.  The extended keyboard’s Enter key will scroll the window to the current insertion point.  The left and right arrows will take you to the next and previous chapters respectively in stand-alone documents.  The up and down arrows (in stand-alone documents) will scroll the text up and down just like the scroll-bar arrows.

• You may output from the stand alone documents to a text file by choosing “Output TEXT…” under the File Menu while in a stand-alone document.

• A Transfer item is available in both DOCMaker’s and the stand-alone documents’ File menus to jump to other applications without quitting to the Finder.

• You may customize the “About…” menu and dialog in the stand-alone documents.  Details are provided in the users manual you receive after registering.

• You may add a hyper-text table of contents to your documents which allows the readers a convenient way to navagate.  Details are provided in the users manual you receive after registering.

• You may specify the size, location, and characteristics of the stand-alone document window.  Details are provided in the users manual you receive after registering.

Thanks again for supporting shareware—

Mark S. Wall      GEnie - MSWALL
     CIS -     73047,1233
     AOL-    MSWALL